Noun: mann
Gender: Masculine
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Nouns inflected like mann
mann,
Etymology
From Old Norse mann, accusative case of maðr (“man”) (compare the accusative of the Icelandic maður). Originally the word only had the sense "human" but later changed to primarily designate an adult male, the original meaning being replaced by words such as menneske and person. Believed to ultimately be from Proto-Germanic *mann-, stemming from the Proto-Indo-European *man- (a root). Cognate with Swedish man, Danish mand, Faroese and Icelandic maður, English man and many others. See: Old Norse Nouns '
mann', Icelandic Nouns '
maður', Swedish Nouns '
man', Danish Nouns '
mand', Icelandic Nouns '
maður', English Nouns '
man'.
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